VOA慢速英语2016 新任缅甸总统与昂山素季关系亲近（在线收听）

AS IT IS 2016-03-16 Myanmar President Close to Aung San Suu Kyi 新任缅甸总统与昂山素季关系亲近

Myanmar’s parliament has elected Htin Kyaw as the country’s next president.

缅甸联邦会议经投票推选出吴廷觉为下任总统。

The retired bureaucrat from the National League for Democracy, or NLD, won 360 of the 652 votes in a joint meeting of the legislature.

在缅甸联邦会议中，这位全国民主联盟退休官员以绝对优势赢得652票中的360票。

Htin Kyaw is not a member of parliament, but he is a close ally of NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The pro-democracy leader was among the first to vote in Tuesday’s historic election.

吴廷觉虽非国会议员，但他是全国民主联盟主席昂山素季的密友。昂山素季这位亲民主运动领袖在周二的历史性选举中是第一批投票的议员。

Aung San Suu Kyi made no comment to reporters after the vote.

昂山素季投票后未对记者发表任何言论。

The Nobel Prize winner is popular with most citizens of Myanmar, also known as Burma. But she is barred by the constitution from becoming president because both of her sons have foreign citizenship.

这位诺贝尔奖获得者深受缅甸人民的尊敬。但按照宪法规定，因其两个儿子拥有外国国籍，她无法成为总统。

A U.S. State Department official said the constitutional ban did not agree with basic democratic ideas.

美国国务院官员表示，宪法禁令与基本的民主理念并不一致。

“We remain concerned about certain provisions in Burma’s constitution that contradict fundamental democratic principles and prevent the people of Burma from voting for the leaders of their choice,” said the official.

官员还称，“我们对缅甸宪法中的若干规定很关注，这些规定违背了基本的民主原则，妨碍缅甸人民选出他们心仪的领导人。”

“The people of Burma should be able to decide whether and when to amend the country’s constitution to alter or remove these provisions."

“缅甸人民应该有权决定是否以及何时修改该国宪法，包括修改或废除这些规定。”

Aung San Suu Kyi has declared she will hold power over the president, whom she has known since primary school.

昂山素季曾宣布，她的权利将会高于这位她小学时就认识的总统。

However, the military will remain powerful in the new government because it automatically holds one quarter of the parliamentary seats. The military also will control several important ministries.

然而，军方在新政府中仍具有很大影响力。按规定，军方拥有四分之一的议会席位。军方还控制着几个重要的部门。

Officials tried to prevent reporters from interviewing or videotaping the military’s members of parliament as they registered for the joint session.

当军方议会成员在联席会议登记时，相关官员阻止记者采访或拍摄。

“When the NLD forms a government, we will need to work together with them,” an army brigadier general, who declined to give his name, told VOA.

一位匿名的缅甸陆军准将接受采访时表示，“在全国民主联盟组建新政府之后，我们需要与他们共同合作。”

The army’s candidate for president, General Myint Swe, who placed second, will become the first vice president. The general, however, remains on a U.S. government blacklist, and Americans are barred with doing business with him.

军方的总统候选人吴敏瑞所得票数排名第二，他将出任第一副总统。但这位将军仍然在美国政府的黑名单上，美国人不允许跟他有生意往来。

The NLD’s Henry Van Thio, a Christian from Chin state, finished third in Tuesday’s voting and will become second vice president.

全国民主联盟的亨利·班提育是一位来自钦邦的基督徒，周二的选举中票数排名第三，他将出任第二副总统一职。

After the vote on Tuesday, lawmakers from both the NLD and the now opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) stressed the need to work together.

周二选举过后，全国民主联盟和现今的反对党巩固与发展党的国会议员都强调要共同努力建立新政府。

However, analysts and some members of the NLD have expressed concern. They fear the influence of the generals will mean corruption will continue to be a problem in Myanmar.

然而，相关的分析人士及全国民主联盟成员对新政府表示担忧。他们担心军方强大的影响力意味着腐败仍然是缅甸的一大隐患。

Myanmar is a mainly Buddhist country of more than 55 million people. The country has suffered civil war or ethnic conflict for many of the years since the end of British colonial rule in 1948.

缅甸是一个人口超过5500万，信奉佛教的国家。自1948年经历英国殖民统治以来，缅甸内战和种族冲突不断。

There has been progress in negotiating peace deals with different groups since a nominally civilian government took power in 2011. But low-intensity conflicts continue between Myanmar’s army and a number of armed ethnic minority groups.

自从2011年名义上的文职政府上台以来，各派在和平协议谈判上取得了一些进展。但是缅甸军方和一些少数民族武装群体之间还存在小范围的冲突。

The new government will take office on April 1.

新政府将于4月1日正式上任。

Words in This Story

bureaucrat – n. someone who works for the government or a large company

contradict – v. to say something that is the opposite of what someone or something else has said

provisions – n. conditions that are part of an agreement

principle - n. a guiding moral rule or belief

quarter - n. one of four equal parts of something

analysts – n. a person who studies something